The mission of the Foundation for Open Access Statistics (FOAS)
is to promote free software, open access publishing, and reproducible research in statistics.

FOAS works to ensure the continued success of the Journal of Statistical Software (JSS),
one of the few major open access journals that is free for both readers and
authors. We also promote the use and development of free software for statistics, such as the R language and environment for
computational statistics. We encourage members and the academic
community at large to publish reproducible research that is
publicly available online, e.g., in an open access journal or on an
open access pre-print server.